The Children's Republic

by Hannah Moscovitch
directed by Alisa Palmer

A co-production with
Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company

Dr. Janusz Korczak, revolutionary champion of children and signatory to the League of Nations' Declaration of the Rights of the Child, meets his match in a defiant boy named Israel. When war threatens the children in Korczak's Warsaw orphanage, it is Israel who comes to the rescue. In the face of looming catastrophe, Israel gives his teacher the greatest gift of all: courage.

Hannah Moscovitch is currently playwright-in-residence at Tarragon. She is considered one of the strongest young voices in the country and was nominated for the prestigious international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her works include East of Berlin, Essay and The Russian Play.

two hours including one intermission.

Notes

  • Special Post-Show Lecture — Saturday, December 17
    -after the matinee performance.
    Nate Leipciger was born in Chorzow Poland on February 28, 1928. Nate spent 3 years in the Sosnowiec Ghetto, and at age 15 was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  • Design Talks — Wednesday, November 9 at 7pm
    with set and costume designer Camellia Koo
    and sound designer John Gzowski
  • Free Lecture Series — Saturday, November 19 at 1pm.
    Cheryl Milne, LL.B., M.S.W. Cheryl Milne is a leading member of the constitutional law bar in Ontario. She is currently Chair of the Ontario Bar Association's Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights section and the Executive Director of the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.

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November 8–December 18
Opens Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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In loving memory
of Holocaust Survivor
Margaret Weisz Effort Trust


supported by a donation
in honour of Holocaust Survivor: Chaim Fridman

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